Insights and Stories on USDA

No fresh aid package for U.S. farmers planned for now, Perdue says

Apr. 30, 2019 at 8:59 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The Trump administration does not have any active plans to provide more aid to farmers at the moment but can consider the option if the trade negotiations and weak commodity prices linger, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said on Tuesday. “We have been very clear […]

Trump administration eyes more aid to farmers if necessary

Apr. 29, 2019 at 5:37 pm CDT

By Reuters

USDA won’t survey for volume of grain lost to March floods

Apr. 25, 2019 at 2:48 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

WTO finds for U.S. on crop tariff dispute with China

Apr. 18, 2019 at 9:46 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat futures tumble on increasing global supply estimates

Apr. 16, 2019 at 6:49 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat firm in late rally, end week lower

Apr. 12, 2019 at 6:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures edged higher on Friday, lifted by a late round of short-covering and worries about planting delays following a blizzard this week, traders said. Soybean futures closed flat in dull trade. Chicago Board of Trade May corn settled up one cent at […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

Apr. 11, 2019 at 8:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — A second “bomb cyclone” blizzard hitting the United States was limiting the movement and processing of corn, soybeans and wheat around the Midwest and Plains on Thursday. Grain trader Cargill said it was closing three of its grain handling facilities in Minnesota, two in South Dakota […]

By Reuters

USDA lowers Canadian canola export forecast

Apr. 10, 2019 at 10:23 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The slowing pace of Canadian canola exports, linked to the country’s trade dispute with China, saw the U.S. Department of Agriculture lower its forecast for Canadian canola exports in the current 2018-19 marketing year. In its latest Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade report, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets brace for weather, trade war

Apr. 10, 2019 at 7:46 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — With the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report in the rearview mirror, the Chicago Board of Trade is trading largely on weather forecasts and flood reports. Markets did react, however, when the WASDE report dropped on Tuesday. “We did see some short […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit down, retreating from last week’s top

Apr. 9, 2019 at 7:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Most months of Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed down the daily three-cent trading limit on Tuesday on softening cash markets and profit-taking following contract highs set last week, analysts said. “The cash market has slowed down. It was down a little yesterday and the […]

By Julie Ingwersen